Rytm MKII muted trig on first play only

Elektron Gear Analog Rytm
#1

I created a drum pattern on my MKII and noticed that the snare seems muted on the first play only. There are 64 steps on the pattern. The snare hits on step 13. Each time I press play (in song mode ) it slightly mutes the snare on step 13 only on the first 1-16 steps. There are no mutes on any of the trigs in the song. When I switch to a new kit and play then go back to original kit (not in song mode) it plays fine, the way it is supposed to. It appears to only be in song mode. The strange thing is that you can’t hear the snare but you can hear a slight backwards sound like there is some synth engine parameter lock happening. Once the pattern plays through and goes back to the beginning the snare DOES play through the first 16 steps. I checked and there are no trig mutes happening and when I press the trig itself and then push “Trig” on the menu to see what it’s set to (Nei, fill etc) everything seems to be set to a normal default setting. I have read through the parameter lock and conditional lock section in the manual.

I can’t seem to solve this. Since I was recording and getting frustrated that I couldn’t locate the issue I simply went to a new, unused pattern location in the kit and tried to recreate the pattern on the D bank rather than B bank and low and behold, when I play the pattern the first time through, the exact same snare hit on step 13 of 64 is slightly muted. I can’t tell if it’s some global setting affecting the velocity or synth engine. The sound that plays is very slight. I can’t figure it out. Anyone experienced this or can someone see something I’m missing? Thank you!

#2

It sounds like you have parameter-locked the trig condition “first” to that particular snare hit. Press that trig and look in the trig menu COND, top right.

#3

Yes, that is exactly what my friend who has the Digitakt thought and I tried that but that setting is fine based on what I can see. It is set to the same settings as all the other trigs. Really bizarre. It’s like for just that trig the first time it’s playing only the synth engine. It’s a quiet echo of the actual snare sound.

#4

Just a thought, similar first pass issues can be legitimately down to how the synthesis works … discussed a bit on A4 bass drums and toms built on resonant filters

not really noted much chatter about similar issues wrt the AR, however, a way to conceptually prove a bit of this would be to put in a ghost hit just ahead of it, even if it’s imperceptibly quiet (first time around it may be even quieter of course), it will engage any resonance or noise into a circuit that needs kinda pinging if you like

if the ghost hit solves the issue, then take a closer look at the synth model the snare uses and report … it may be easy to verify by sharing the sound/settings of the snare and putting a hit anywhere on an empty pattern

also note if the snare is on a choking pair track (3/4) and be mindful of any locks on its partner track - the interaction between those four track pairs can be very counter-intuitive